Theatre

• W. Roy Mackenzie: "A Morality is a play, allegorical in structure, which has for its main object the teaching of some lesson for the guidance of life”
• what is the purpose of morality plays?

  
  

  teaching of some lesson for the guidance of life
• medieval plays are a way of teaching church doctrine and moral principals in an appealing way to audiences
• spatiotemporal boundaries: biblical historical events become immediately available, regardless of their tangibility
• Morality plays are allegorical; mystical plays are not
• Mystery Plays tell stories that people would already know, whilst Morality plays are more individualistic and cerebral.
• these plays are interested in exploring relationships between the local and the global, the individual and the universal